Wills running column: So who raced the horse at Pebble Hill?

12:54 AM,
Oct. 7, 2012

Written by

Herb Wills
| Local running columnist

Local runners had no shortage of reasons to make the morning trip to Pebble Hill Plantation on Sept. 29 for the fourth annual Quail Trail 5K.

There was the chance to run a course nearly free of vehicular traffic. There was the opportunity to stay after the race and watch more than 700 high-school and middle-school athletes compete in an invitational cross-country meet. There was the pleasure of touring the Plantation grounds. There was the challenge of racing a trotting horse.

Actually, you weren't supposed to race the horse. The horse was supposed to guide the runners around the 3.1-mile ...